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CVE-2021-45417

Public on 2022-01-20
Modified on 2022-09-15
Description

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the base64 functions of AIDE, an advanced intrusion detection system. An attacker could crash the program and possibly execute arbitrary code through large (<16k) extended file attributes or ACL.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 aide 2022-05-31 23:47 ALAS-2022-1587
Amazon Linux 2 - Core aide 2022-09-15 04:55 ALAS2-2022-1850

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H